Remember the town hall meetings with Congress members in 2009 where people screamed their opposition to Obamacare? A year later, Republicans wiped out Democrats in the mid-term elections at all levels of government.
The impact was especially profound in state legislatures, and GOP control of many of those gave the party the ability to control the process of re-drawing district lines after the 2010 census.
In a book with a title we can't say on the air--Ratf**ked--Salon Editor-in-chief David Daley writes of the convergence of political players and dark money that made redistricting an enduring Republican victory. David Daley visits the Exchange with details of the process and the people.
